An arrhythmologist is a cardiologist specialising in the treatment of arrhythmias. He treats people with acute or chronic heart rhythm problems. Using modern methods and examinations, the arrhythmologist makes a diagnosis and offers therapeutic procedures, including electrical pulse therapy and pacemaker implantation.

Usually people do not notice the heart beating. However, if the heart rate deviates from the norm, the changes are most often also subjectively felt. This is arrhythmia – a heart rhythm disorder. In this case only a specialist can make an accurate diagnosis, as well as provide appropriate treatment. Heart disease is a serious health risk, therefore one should not delay the visit to the doctor.

Arrhythmia is a disease, but heart problems can be a manifestation of another disease, so it is often not the arrhythmia itself that has to be treated, but the disease that causes it, including high blood pressure.

Atrial fibrillation is the most common heart rhythm disorder and a person may not even feel it, however, some patients feel peculiar heart vibrations that are often not given enough attention. If, for example, atrial fibrillation occurs as a short-term reaction after an infection or a sleepless night, it may be a symptom of another serious illness.

Arrhythmias can also occur due to changes in the body’s self-regulatory system and can be accompanied by circulatory disorders that can be life-threatening. Such problems, however, cannot go unnoticed – they occur suddenly, as loss of consciousness along with the onset of heart problems.